Solving the ext3 latency problem
Solving the ext3 latency problem
Posted Apr 16, 2009 9:42 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576)In reply to: Solving the ext3 latency problem by butlerm
Parent article: Solving the ext3 latency problem
However, in the case of file replacement via rename or truncate, ext3 (and ext4) will now flush the data to disk before the associated metadata anyway, even using data=writeback, so data=guarded does indeed solve that problem.